the best qualified person for a job may well be a candidate who isn't necessarily the one with the best test score.

No one said anything about test scores. We have always said “the best person for the job”. If that means all white people, it means all white people. If you want to pretend that’s racist, that’s your problem. Somehow, magically, all black people isn’t racist.

What are these "diversity" numbers supposed to show? Should Apple have an even break-down of all minority groups represented in their total workforce #s, as well as ethnicities, ages, sexes, reglious backgrounds, etc to prove that they support "diversity"?

It could stand as evidence for board representation. If their workforce is 20% women, they don't need 50% of the board to be women.

Whatever way the numbers turn out, I think they should consider Salma Hayek for the board:

Female and Mexican, that's two groups in one. I'm sure she's good with computers and things to qualify for the board.

At least one of her qualities stands out, as far as I can see.

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."- African proverb

Yeah, she's done more to aid internet adoption than Al Gore. Years ago people would ask, 'where can I get more pictures of Salma Hayek?' and the answer came 'on the internet of course' and look how it took off.